If you’re in the market for a boat to build, this directory of Boat Plans & Kits is a fine place to start. And if your company sells plans or kits, we invite you to list your offerings here.
There is no charge for listing, but the FEATURED BOATS MUST BE BUILT OF WOOD.
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A quickly, easily and inexpensively built solo canoe, that can be built by one person with hand tools in three days. Complete plans and step-by-step instructions. A great family boatbuilding project.
A double version of the popular Kingfisher, the best recreational shells for both rough and smooth water.
Construction: Plywood planking over bulkhead-type frames
No lofting is required
Plans include 4 sheets.
A Swampscott dory-type daysailer with generous side decks and inside ballast.
Construction Method: Lapstrake over sawn frames
Lofting is required: Partial
Plans include 4 sheets.
This design came about when I got to thinking about having an elegant dinghy for our 34′ Topsail Ketch Sunrise.
SEA BRIGHT (MICROCRUISER) 18LOA: 18′ BEAM: 5′ 1″ DRAFT: 8 ½″WEIGHT: 350 to 500 lbs depending on construction & use.RIG: Ketch—Sprit main, balance jib and sprit mizzenTYPE: New Jersey Beach Skiff. Suitable for sailing and rowing with one or two oarsmen in the open ocean and coastal waters.
LITTLE CRAB is a smaller version of the Chesapeake Crab Skiff I drew several years ago.
Interested in building your own boat? Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington, NC sells Simmons Sea-Skiff boat plans in 18′, 20′ and 22′.Thomas Norwood Simmons was born in 1908 in Wilmington and lived most of his life on Myrtle Grove Sound. He was a carpenter by trade.
The time of England’s racing dinghies was dominated by Uffa Fox’s boat the “Alarm”. Simon's take on the expert design is a tribute to an age of lightning-quick wooden racing boats.
The Sapphire 27 is developed from our very successful Design No. 056, to give a more traditional cruising oriented layout both down below and on deck.
The Sail kit allows you to transform the canoes NINFA, NAIADE and ONDINA, in small sailing trimarans for coastal cruising with minimal efforts.
William Atkin-designed, gaff-rigged 23' sailboat in very good shape on double-axle trailer, also
Penobscot 13 wooden sailboat built by designer Arch Davis 2016.
